Mind and Religion

Psychological and Cognitive Foundations of Religion
Herausgeber: Mccauley, Robert N.; Whitehouse, Harvey

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This collection examines new psychological evidence for the modal theory and attempts to synthesize this theory with other theories of cognition and religion.

Produktdetails

• Cognitive Science of Religion
• Verlag: Altamira Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Juni 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 589g
• ISBN-13: 9780759106185
• ISBN-10: 0759106185
• Artikelnr.: 21709046

Autorenporträt

Harvey Whitehouse is Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Institute of Cognition and Culture at Queen's University Belfast. Robert N. McCauley is Professor of Philosophy at Emory University in Atlanta. He is the author, with E. Thomas Lawson, of Rethinking Religion: Connecting Cognition and Culture (1990) and Bringing Ritual to Mind: Psychological Foundations of Cultural Forms (2002).

Inhaltsangabe

1 Introduction Part 2 The Theoretical Context 3 A Reductionistic Model of
Distinct Modes of Religious Transmission 4 Modes Theory: Some Theoretical
Considerations 5 Ritual Form and Ritual Frequency 6 Divergent Religion: A
Dual-Process Model of Religious Thought, Behavior, and Structure 7
Rethinking Naturalness: Modes of Religiosity and Religion in the Round Part
8 Testing the Modes Theory 9 In the Empirical Mode: Evidence Needed for the
Modes of Religiosity 10 Memory and Analogical Thinking in High-Arousal
Rituals Part 11 Wider Applications 12 The Modes Theory Helps Explain
Conversion Phenomena 13 Charisma, Tradition and Ritual: A Cognitive
Approach to Magical Agency 14 Why Religions Develop Free Will Problems 15
The Cognitive Foundations of Religiosity